The Moon Is Slowing Down Earth #shorts

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]The moon is slowing down Earth. That sounds impossible because the moon looks calm, silent, and far away. But its gravity is always pulling on Earth. That pull creates tides in the oceans, and those tides do not line up perfectly with the moon because Earth spins faster than the moon orbits. So the tidal bulge gets pulled slightly ahead. That creates a tiny gravitational drag on Earth's rotation. Over time, Earth's days get longer, not by much, only milliseconds across centuries, but the effect is real. So the moon is not just lighting up the night. It is slowly stealing Earth's spin.